Career
Grimsby returned to his native Duluth, Minnesota, where he began his anchoring career in 1954, serving as an announcer for WEBC Radio. Shortly thereafter, he decided to switch to the growing medium of television, working as a correspondent and news director at various television stations around Minnesota and Wisconsin, including WEAU-TV Eau Claire, WISC-TV Madison, and WXIX-TV (now WVTV) Milwaukee. He then spent two years (1959–1961) at KMOX (now KMOV) in St. Louis, before becoming the anchor and news director at ABC-owned KGO-TV in San Francisco, in 1961. He then moved to New York City's WABC-TV in 1968, where he was co-anchor on Eyewitness News alongside Tom Dunn from 1968 through 1970, and then Bill Beutel from 1970 to 1986. He won six Emmy Awards at WABC-TV before he left that station in 1986 to join WNBC-TV. After two years at WNBC, he relocated to San Diego where he was anchor for KUSI news, before going into semi-retirement in 1990.
Grimsby's departure from WABC was a rather acrimonious one. After his departure in 1986 (in an incident recounted by several of his colleagues, including Tom Snyder who reported the incident on The Late Late Show soon after Grimsby's death), ABC decided to retaliate against Grimsby by buying a building across the street from WABC's studio in upper Manhattan where three bars he used to frequent regularly were housed, and closed the bars shortly thereafter.
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